A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
Tokyo Olympics Chief Apologizes for Remarks Demeaning Women (Published 2021)
TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti
Opinion | Japan Can’t Handle the Coronavirus. Can It Host the Olympics? (Published 2020)
TOKYO — The Japanese government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak has been staggeringly incompetent. Why, when so much is at stake for Japan, especially as the host country of the Olympics this summer? The first infection in Japan was confirmed on Jan. 28. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus to be “a public health emergency of international concern” on Jan. 30. But it took
Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech, Annotated (Published 2017)
New York Times reporters analyze the 45th president’s comments. Related Article Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together we will determine the c
Obama, Saying Goodbye, Warns of Threats to National Unity (Published 2017)
After eight years and one of the most contentious elections in memory, President Obama took the stage in Chicago to defend his agenda and to encourage unity in an increasingly fractured political landscape.CreditCredit...Doug Mills/The New York Times CHICAGO — President Obama, delivering a farewell address in the city that launched his political career, declared on Tuesday his continued confidence
With One Castro Gone, Questions About What the Other Castro Will Do (Published 2016)
Raúl Castro in Havana on Nov. 24. Mr. Castro assumed presidential powers in 2006 before getting the official title in 2008.Credit...Ernesto Mastrascusa/European Pressphoto Agency MEXICO CITY — For half a century, as Fidel Castro transformed Cuba into a Communist state and sparred with the United States, his brother Raúl worked in his shadow, the authoritarian leader’s disciplined, junior partner.
In Havana, Castro’s Death Lays Bare a Generation Gap (Published 2016)
transcript For Cubans, the End of an EraAfter news broke Friday evening that Fidel Castro had died, some people in Havana reacted in shock, disbelief, and pain. Others saw the former leader's death as an opportunity for the country. After news broke Friday evening that Fidel Castro had died, some people in Havana reacted in shock, disbelief, and pain. Others saw the former leader's death as an opp
Opinion | Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30, Except Bernie Sanders (Published 2016)
AT an activities fair at the beginning of the school year, Hana Barkowitz, a sophomore at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and the president of its chapter of the College Democrats , set out two bowls of candy: one symbolizing support for Hillary Clinton, filled with fun-size chocolate bars, and the other for Senator Bernie Sanders, filled with Blow Pops. The bowl for Mr. Sanders “went immedia
Pierre Boulez, Composer and Conductor Who Pushed Modernism’s Boundaries, Dies at 90 (Published 2016)
Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic in the 1970s.Credit...New York Philharmonic Archives Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who helped blaze a radical new path for classical music in the 20th century, becoming one of its dominant figures in the decades after World War II, died on Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. He was 90. His family confirmed his death in
Russia: Librarian Is Accused of Allowing Access to Banned Ukrainian Books (Published 2015)
The director of a Ukrainian-language library in Moscow was placed under house arrest on Monday by a Russian court that accused her of allowing public access to banned literature. The director, Natalia Sharina, could face as much as five years in prison for what Russian law enforcement agencies said was the dissemination of books by a Ukrainian nationalist writer, Dmytro Korchynsky, that are banned
Rewriting the War, Japanese Right Attacks a Newspaper (Published 2014)
Takashi Uemura, a former journalist, is under attack for his reporting on “comfort women.”Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times SAPPORO, Japan — Takashi Uemura was 33 when he wrote the article that would make his career. Then an investigative reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second-largest newspaper, he examined whether the Imperial Army had forced women to work in military brothels dur
Hundreds of Anne Frank Books Vandalized in Japan (Published 2014)
A ripped copy of an Anne Frank picture book at a Tokyo library. Officials said they did not know the motive for the vandalism.Credit...Koji Ueda/Associated Press TOKYO — Japan on Friday promised to begin an investigation into the mysterious mutilation of hundreds of copies of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” and other books related to her at public libraries across Tokyo. Local news media r
Robert A. Dahl Dies at 98; Yale Scholar Defined Politics and Power (Published 2014)
Robert A. Dahl, a political scientist who was widely regarded as his profession’s most distinguished student of democratic government, died on Wednesday in Hamden, Conn. He was 98. His stepdaughter Sara Connor confirmed the death. In 2002, The New Yorker said Professor Dahl was “about as covered with honors as a scholar can be” and quoted the Cornell scholar Theodore J. Lowi as calling him “the fo
In Promoting His City for 2020 Games, Tokyo’s Bid Chairman Tweaks Others (Published 2013)
In Promoting His City for 2020 Games, Tokyo’s Bid Chairman Tweaks Others With less than five months to go before the International Olympic Committee chooses a city to host the 2020 Summer Games, the three remaining bidders — Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo — are increasing their efforts to win over delegates and the public. The Olympic committee’s rules prohibit bid committee members from directly crit
Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 (Published 2012)
Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German Shepherd, Herman, in 2006.Credit...Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche,
An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood (Published 2007)
So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good versus Evil. Love versus Hate. The Seeker versus the Dark Lord. J. K. Rowling’s monumental, spellbinding epic, 10 ye
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